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I have worked with a lot of children and I think EF is a lot like IQ. If you have average IQ, enrichment activities starting early on may raise your scores by a standard deviation but it will be in the same ball park that your genetics would indicate. If you have average EF and you build the skills they may become high average but that is about it. For example, based on scores we have from childhood, I would be HG and have average to high average EF skills I would guess. My husband is MG but has the best EF skills I may have ever seen. I am fairly successful, he is off the charts successful. Leads all sorts of organizations, advanced very quickly at work was an intel science award winner and very successful academically. I did well compared to the general population but he is the one who is really outstanding. Our IQ scores would not indicate this to be the case, I think EF scores are more important than IQ they are just harder to measure so we emphasize IQ scores.